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Topic: No lawyers will represent India ´gang-rape´ defendants on "moral grounds" |
No lawyers will represent India ´gang-rape´ defendants on "moral grounds"
Mirror [U.K.], by Staff
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Posted By:PageTurner, 1/4/2013 2:21:47 AM
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| Five men were today charged with the gang rape and murder of a student in India but the suspects have no legal representation because lawyers are refusing to defend them. Amid furious mass protests after the attack on a bus, the Delhi Bar Association said that on “moral grounds” none of its members would act for the accused men. The suspects were hooded and handcuffed by police today but did not appear in court because of fears that angry mobs would try to exact revenge. Bus driver Ram Singh, 33; his brother Mukesh, 26, who is a bus cleaner; 19-year-old fruit seller
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Comments: One billion Indians and not a single lawyer among them willing to defend these evil ogres. I hope the six maggots are terrified.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jond, 1/4/2013 2:36:20 AM (No. 9097625)
They can´t be hanged without a trial, and they can´t be tried without defense counsel.
Note, BTW, none of them is named Mohammed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/4/2013 3:11:41 AM (No. 9097631)
It sounds like they have the right guys...so, I am not too worried about the fact they can´t get representation in court. Sick monsters.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/4/2013 3:20:50 AM (No. 9097635)
I´m sure all the liberal criminal loving lawyers in the US will donate their time...maybe Gloria what´s her name.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/4/2013 3:41:10 AM (No. 9097646)
Notice the difference in the morals of India vs. ours.I´d hate to think how many gang rapes happen in this country every day but they don´t even make the paper.
There´s lawyers in this country who would take their case in a minute because of the free publicity that comes with it.The more heinous the crime,the more a left wing lawyer licks his chops.
In a way,I envy India because their sense of morality is so much better than ours.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lala, 1/4/2013 4:25:19 AM (No. 9097669)
Not to jump willy nilly to the defense of U.S. lawyers, but these monsters would get representation here not necessarily because all defense attorneys are sleezy publicity seekers but there are actually some who sincerely believe that everyone is entitled to due process under the law. It´s a critical concept under our Constitution. I would not want to live in a place where citizens are willing to throw that protection out the door whenever a heinous crime is committed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 1/4/2013 4:27:43 AM (No. 9097672)
I want the youngest one (who was the most violent) to be declared an adult; otherwise he just gets three years max. Evil. Pure evil.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Achilles, 1/4/2013 4:56:56 AM (No. 9097693)
Just skip the trial and ask the mob in front of the court house what should be done to them. Not all criminal defense attorneys are "criminal loving liberals." Republican defense attorneys take their oath to support and defend the constitution seriously. Our constitution recognizes basic rights such as the right to be presumed innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and the right to due process. Our founders knew what they were doing. It takes no moral courage to refuse to represent someone that the mob wants to tear into. What would Atticus Finch do? I bet there were lots of folks the lawyers would not represent on moral grounds during the French Revolution. Cowards. By the reasoning displayed here, no one should represent the "Travon Martin Defendant".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sfacheem, 1/4/2013 6:34:53 AM (No. 9097743)
I want all US federal and US State defense attorneys to begin outsourcing their legal work to India, stat.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 1/4/2013 6:52:41 AM (No. 9097759)
The article does not say whether these men were Muslim, but these are not Muslim names. A poster has said the youngest perpetrator was the worst of the lot. She must have read that elsewhere because it is not in this article. Not that the degree of cruelty is relevant.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/4/2013 7:07:05 AM (No. 9097782)
Maybe Ron Kuby can advise them, pro bono, as he did with Colin Ferguson, the LIRR murderer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
AngryAmerican, 1/4/2013 7:35:47 AM (No. 9097818)
Looks like India may need to import some of America´s many sleazy morally challenged criminal defense attorneys who lie and cheat on behalf of their guilty sub-human clients (while loudly proclaiming the innocence of the guilty sub-humans).
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
raphaela, 1/4/2013 7:43:14 AM (No. 9097832)
The youngest one helped to lure the young woman on the bus(?). He raped her twice and tore out her intestines with his bare hands - bare hands! Yes, the most despicable one is the youngest though those who participated and witnessed the barbarity of this rape should be publicly castrated and then hung in my opinion.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 1/4/2013 11:09:21 AM (No. 9098323)
Thank you, #5. You have touched upon the key point in this affair. Under our American rule of law, the accused is innocent until proven guilty. Under the rule of Media, it is good enough just to be accused (it´s the seriousness of the charges, not the weight of the evidence).
If these defendants are found guilty after a reasonably fair trial, then all bets are off. Until then, the real shame lies upon all those who are demanding instant ´justice´.
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